Like I suppose a lot of people must do, I just started sending unsolicited drawings to magazines in the hope that they would publish them (which to be fair, after 40 years of trying, they did). But then it emerged that my most important client publication has some very firm views about what else I […]
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That Clip Studio … How’s that Work Then? … Fill Tools
Fill Tools First appeared in Issue 542 of The Jester, June 2020 Like most painting and drawing software, Clip Studio comes equipped with a Paint Bucket Fill tool, useful for filling areas of your illustration with flat colour. Clip Studio’s paint bucket (or Fill tool as it’s referred to in Clip Studio) has a […]
My Antiques Roadshow Adventure
By Mark Warby “Try not to move – we don’t want to have to nail your feet to the ground,” I was told, one day last summer. This wasn’t a threat of imminent torture, though – merely a joke to help put me at ease, when I found myself in front of the TV cameras […]
A Not-Quite-How-To Guide On Not Making Money As A Cartoonist
SORRY, EDITOR SAYS NO! By Pete Songi It’s 4.55am, it’s press day on that architectural magazine title you’re employed at, but all you can think about for the last few broken hours of sleep is the gag. That speech from Theresa May, that episode of Question Time, that toon that is swirling around and around […]
Lakes International Comic Arts Festival 2019
We’ve been heading to Kendal for the Lakes International Comics Art Festival for a few years now. Our stand, thanks to the handy hands of Rich Skipworth, has become a wall of members’ merchandise and cartoon prints. We always encourage members to attend and every year one or two new faces turn up and join […]
Tribute to Noel Ford
Noel’s funeral was on 16 October 2019 in Hereford. Our very own Paul Hardman oversaw the service and it couldn’t have been better. You did good, Paul. Pete Dredge’s Eulogy Pete Dredge was asked to deliver the eulogy, reproduced here, and, like with Paul, I’m sure Noel would have been delighted: I can’t remember […]
